Creatures

Famous quotes containing the word creatures:

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea!—incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“Some creatures are made to see in the dark.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“O curse of marriage,
That we can call these delicate creatures ours
And not their appetites!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)